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Re: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

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Post by newscracker »

No. But if it were with a paid option and no ads or marketing/data sharing partnerships of any kind and if it has limited storage and lets the user manage it (or move to a higher pricing tier), then I might consider it.

I really dislike the per user or per mailbox pricing model followed by some platforms. It gets very expensive to use for a few people in the family.

Copying my other comment on attachments [1]:

> People get bank statements, investment transaction statements and other important information as attachments, and they may need to get those years later from emails (it may not be easy to get from the original source and they may have lost their local copies).

> Like it or not, e-mail is a document storage medium for most people.

Note the following services that provide what I’ve listed above, except that they don’t meet some other criteria I have:

- Mxroute

- Migadu

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30008723

Re: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

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Post by jasonpeacock »

No, because when a product is free then you are the product.

I'd much rather pay for the services I use (e.g. Fastmail) knowing that there's company who's purpose is to build and support a product for me, not advertisers or some other interest.

Re: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

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Post by StellarTabi »

> Free alternative to paid G Suite. > > Your custom domain.

I love it! I need more than one domain.

> Unlimited amount of users.

For the free tier specifically, maybe organizations otherwise giving you $0 should have a limit like 20 or 100. Or "unlimited users" could be a $10/month addon for the free plan.

> No storage limit

too unfair for you, I'd rather pay B2 style prices for each GB past 10GB or something.

> but attachments stored only for 1 month.

Surprise deletions are an instant No. Most inboxes just show you your % usage in the corner and allow me to handle deletions on my schedule.

Re: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

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Post by TrueGeek »

jasonpeacock wrote: post #33

No, because when a product is free then you are the product. I'd much rather pay for the services I use (e.g. Fastmail) knowing that there's company who's purpose is to build and support a product for me , not advertisers or some other interest.

Relevant SMBC

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/free

Re: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

#36

Post by cassianoleal »

voisin wrote: post #30
cplli wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For my personal email I use the new iCloud+ service, as I already had a plan and they have the "Hide my email" feature which is a plus. For company email: Fastmail. They're professional, I trust them, the price value ratio is good. Can't complain

What did you use before? How did you find the transition? I am on gSuite and would move over but all the ways of getting past emails up to iCloud seemed messy.

Can't you just use regular IMAP to migrate the mails? IMAP download the whole mailbox, then upload to the new service.

Re: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

#37

Post by drcongo »

cplli wrote: post #16
andreinwald wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you ok with G Suite/Zoho/etc prices?

For my personal email I use the new iCloud+ service, as I already had a plan and they have the "Hide my email" feature which is a plus. For company email: Fastmail. They're professional, I trust them, the price value ratio is good. Can't complain

I'd love to switch to the one on iCloud+, which I already pay for anyway, but Apple's restrictions on what constitutes a "family" are bizarre - as soon as I add anyone to the family, I'm also paying for any apps they buy. This is fine with my kids, but what right do I have to know what apps my wife is installing on her own phone? Feels like such a creepy restriction.

Re: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

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Post by [deleted] »

cassianoleal wrote: post #36
voisin wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you use before? How did you find the transition? I am on gSuite and would move over but all the ways of getting past emails up to iCloud seemed messy.

Can't you just use regular IMAP to migrate the mails? IMAP download the whole mailbox, then upload to the new service.

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Re: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

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Post by Nasreddin_Hodja »

ryandvm wrote: post #32
sh4un wrote: post #28

You can't have your cake and eat it to. If you want free, build it yourself. Lots of guides out there.

And it's only free if your time is worthless...

Only for first time. If you are already experienced, it's not so hard to setup a server. Or you can hire a freelancer to do the job for you.

Re: Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

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Post by cplli »

voisin wrote: post #30
cplli wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For my personal email I use the new iCloud+ service, as I already had a plan and they have the "Hide my email" feature which is a plus. For company email: Fastmail. They're professional, I trust them, the price value ratio is good. Can't complain

What did you use before? How did you find the transition? I am on gSuite and would move over but all the ways of getting past emails up to iCloud seemed messy.

I was using Protonmail. The transition was as simple backing up all my emails, changing my DNS records and re-creating my filters. But I didn’t import my Proton email archive into iCloud as I don’t (hopefully) need any emails from it.
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